Ulster County
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Monday, Apr. 15, 2013 - 11:05 am
Above: Filmmaker Dennis O'Clair offers a sneak peek at what's in store at the fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival.
The fourth annual Woodstock Writers Festival takes as its mission “bringing the hottest names in literature to the coolest town in the... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 4:52 pm
Above: Retrofitters at work transforming a Rosendale home into a model of energy efficiency. Photo courtesy of Manna Jo Greene.
The Festival Town -- site of the first green-built, geothermal community center in the state -- will be ahead of the enviro-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 3:13 pm
The area around Vinnie's Farm Market on Route 32 in Saugerties just got a little safer, cops say.
An investigation into ongoing complaints of heroin sales near the fruit stand has yielded an arrest. On Tuesday, the Ulster Regional Gang Enforcement... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Apr. 12, 2013 - 10:31 am
Photo of Ashokan Reservoir Fountain by Flickr user ianbckwltr; published under Creative Commons license.
Part of the public area near the Ashokan Reservoir Fountain will be closed until April 25 while a contractor cleans up hundreds of trees damaged or... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Thursday, Apr. 11, 2013 - 11:25 am
Photo from Peekamoose's Facebook page.
Storytelling and good food have gone together since time immemorial. This Sunday evening, the Peekamoose Restaurant in Big Indian celebrates both, with “Talking With Our Mouths Full: An Evening of Stories about Food... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 6:14 pm
An old rule of etiquette: Don't discuss religion or politics at the dinner table. In upstate New York, one might banish two more incendiary topics from polite dining conversation: Fracking and gun control.
Since the hasty and controversial passage of New... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 4:28 pm
The Daily Freeman reports that Frederick Schussler Jr., life member and former assistant chief of the Lomontville Fire Department, was killed on Wednesday when a car he was working on fell on him:
The man — identified by his sister as Frederick Schussler... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Apr. 10, 2013 - 10:56 am
An off-duty New York State Police trooper has been arrested after allegedly breaking his girlfriend's nose during a domestic dispute in her Highland home on Friday, April 5.
The victim reported the incident to state police on Saturday.
Investigator Louis... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Apr. 9, 2013 - 9:39 am
Above: The Catskill mountains still waking up to spring, seen from a high perch atop Sam's Point in Ellenville. Photo taken April 7, 2013 by Ethan Myers; shared in the Watershed Post's Flickr pool.
Blue sky, blue hills -- and a vivid green landscape that... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Apr. 8, 2013 - 11:44 am
The Onteora Central School District will appoint an interim principal to serve out the rest of the school year at Phoenicia Elementary, whose principal Linda Sella was placed on administrative leave in February.
Since Sella was forced to step down from... Read more
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